Sad and Luminous Days: Cuba's Struggle with the Superpowers after the Missile Crisis
- ISBN-10
- 1461642205
- ISBN-13
- 9781461642206
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 352
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2007-02-08
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
- Authors
- James G. Blight, Philip Brenner
Description
In tracing the developments of the Cuban Missile Crisis and beyond, this book presents and interprets a heretofore unavailable (and largely unknown) secret speech that Castro delivered to the Cuban leadership in 1968. Blight and Brenner shed new light on Cuban-Soviet relations making Sad and Luminous Days essential not only for Cold-War scholars and historians, but also for anyone intrigued by the drama of the thirteen momentous days in October 1962.
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- 2006-12
- 324 pages
- Paperback
- Rowman & Littlefield
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